Re: RFC 251 (v1) Interpolation of class method calls

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:39:48PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
> I suggest that the requirement be:
> 
>          print "There are Dogs::->num_dogs() species of dogs.";
> 
> I.e. use the unambiguous form of class method call.

Uhhh... I never even knew that worked.  With the exception of OO book
authors, everyone's going to trip over that.

I think the case of /\b[A-Z][\w:]*->[A-Z][\w:]*(/ in a string is
infrequent enough that its not going to be a problem.

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